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Page 2 Portland/« lixM rver Thursday November 9, 1972 I , '•> 9 : • fY << * National Black Assembly predicts action on Black Agenda □ National Urban League Executive Director \ e m o r E. Jordan (left) shakes hands with Secretary of Labor James D . Hodgson afte r they signed a new $9.2 million contract to provide on-the- job training for 5,tXX) persons. Left to right are: Lrban League Deputy Evecutlve D irecto r Adolph Holmes. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower Malcolm R. Lovell, J r „ Urban League General Counsel Ronald Brown and Manpower Administrator Paul J . Fasser. J r . Kenyatta denies Mau Mau threat The leader of the Harlem Mau Mau, a seven-year-old black revolutionary organi zation, to d a y challenged reports in the nation's press of the existence of a 3000 member terro rist movement of black V iet Nam veterans dedicated to systematic m ur der of white Americans. The leader is Charles Ken yatta, of New York City, form er Black Muslim en forcer and onetime bodyguard to the late Malcolm X at the □me of his assassination in New York. Himself the target of a 1970 assassination attempt, M r . Kenyatta,com mented on th e alleged M au " black terro rist force which commanded headlines last week after arrest of nine young black men charged with murders of nine Chicago whites. In an exclusive telephone interview with The Associated Negro Press, Kenyatta took issue with widely published claims that the Chicago sus pects are affiliated with a nauonal " lie Mau Mau” con spiracy. "1 started the Mau Mau movement in \m e n c a and, if they are Mau Maus, they be long to Charles Kenyatta,” he said. While denying the Chicago men are part uf his organiza tion, Kenyatta, wi.o as a M us lim was known as Charles 37X, boldly stated his em pathy with “ defensive and retaliatory black violence.” The C> icago suspects. he declared, "s ' ould be looked upon as saints. "Now that black folks have learned the true meaning of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, the press and the white public is in an uproar,” he observed. "T h e re was not such an uproar about the activities of the Minute Men, the John Birch Society, the American Nazi Party, White Citizens Councils and KuKlux Kian. White folks might not call their activities murder, but black folks were dying just the same.” Black people, Kenyatta contended, have no other re course than to strike back. "They have tried the Pan thers. They have tried non-violence. They have tried the M uslim s. They have suc ceeded in getting a class action and a caste action only. It is to oe expected that we should take a page from the book of the Mau Maus in Kenya and strike for freedom by any means necessary. Kenyatta who, in the past, has taken sljarp issue with such leaders as the late D r . M artin King and Whitney Young, said fie had predicted in July 1967 that returning black veterans would seek racial revenge. In a special issue on vio lence published byESQLIRE Magazine, Kenyatta was quo ted as saying: " F o r the firs t time, the young black man has learned how to be violent. By the year 2000. America w ill have had its bloody revolution. M alcolm's death wised upa lot of young black men and they’ve learned that these Uncle Tom leaders - the M artin l.uther Kings, the Whitney Youngs and the Roy Wilkinses - are con trolled by m illionaires who aren’t going to change anything ..„G iven the BlackMuslims is an organization set up to keep things the way they are, “ Faced with this, the young black man has to turn to the Mau M au. We can help him, teach him how to fight...„They can’t kill off these young men in V iet Nam fast enough; a lot of them a re going to come back here and find conditions un changed and they won’t stand for it. They’ ll already know something about fighting and we’ll welcome their services. It’ s going to be a real bloody struggle. Don’ t forget, we’ re organized to fight black as well as w hile.” In the 1970 attempt upon his life, Kenyatta was hit five times as gunfire was directed against him when he was gening into his parked car in the Bronx. Hospitalized for a month, he still carries a bullet in his body, lodged so close to his heart that surgeons thought it w ise not to remove it. New York City police held him under protective arre st while he was hospitalized. A charge against him for carrying a weapon was later dismissed. The Mau Mau Leader, asked to reveal the number of members in his organization, flatly refused. "You don’ t reveal your strength to your enemy,” he said. Tri-met runs special PI buses T r i-M e t w ill run special lourly bus service all nine days of tlie Pacific Inter national Livestock Exposition, November 10 through lb, it was announced by General Manager lorn King. F irs t Lus will leave down town Port'and each day at 12:32 p jn . :rom SW bth \v e nue b e tw e e n Yamhill and M orrison, proceeding Oil Avenue to NW Everett, across the steel bridge, out N . W illiam s Avenue to tie neeway, then express to the Lxposition Center. The P -| specials w ill con tinue the hourly runs through the aiternoon and evening, with tie final bus from tie P -l leaving tie Exposition Center at 11 pun. to return across tie Steel Bridge to tie S.W. otl Jeparture point. Single cash fares wdl be 50 cents. King said. Passengers with valid transfers from routes into downtown w ill pay an additional 15 cents for tie P -l run. Students and senior citizens pay their regular rates of fare plus 15 cents. F o r information on connect ing bus service, passengers may call T n - M e t Information Center at 233-3511. (AANS) - The man elected to serve as principal co ordinator by the firs t aeasion of the National Black As sembly which convened here last weekend has predicted that the group’s firs t move would be to begin implement ing the decisions expressed in the Black Political Agenda. Imamu A m iri B a r a k a , chairman of the Congress of African Peoples and founder of the Comm mee forUnlfied New A rk. said that the initial operational thrust of the structure w ill be to address itaelf to resolving the Issues of the Black community as charged by the resolutions of the National Black Political Convention held last March in Gary, Indiana. Baraka’ s election to the position, to 1» known as a sec retary-general, came during the initial gathering of close to 300 delegates to the 5 ssembly. The Assembly Is the struc ture designed to be an ongoing embodiment of the Gary meeting. Its total delegate strength is 427, or ten per cent of the people present at Gary. Most persons are chosen by local elections, with some 15 seats being allocated for recognized national organi zation. As secretary-general, Ba raka’ s ta s k w ill be to coordinate the efforts of this Assembly with those of the 51 member National Political Council, composed of persons elected by the Assembly on a regional basis grounded in population precentage figures for local Black residents. The assembly w ill be chaired by the President. Representltive Charles Diggs of Michigan, while theCouncil w ill be presided over by its chairman, G a ry 's M ayor Richard C . Hatcher. Itw illb e one of Baraka’ a jobs to maxi m ize the cooperative and effective operation o^the two. “ It ’ s more of a coordinat ing role,” ha explained, “ seeing (hst one hand knows what the other hand is doing and seeing that all hands are fUctioning towards the best interest of the whole.” The newly approved Struc ture did not change the persons in leadership of the group. But it did, stkl Baraka hopefully, provide a more precise dellnation of work resjxjn- slbillties than the fornw r leadership th ree co- by conveners. Asked what the Black community might expect to see firs t from the Assembly, he said that tlie newly elected committees of thegroupwould probably first investigate ways to best begin addressing the charges of the National Black Agenda. The Agenda, a55pagedocu- ment issued In its final form on May 19, was tie coni|x>site position statement. In both general and particular terms, of the Convention. Some saw it also as a "shopping lis t” for peddling the Black vote in the upcoming election. However. Baraka said that tlie Agenda had not really been created for that purpose. Rather, he said. It was conceived of as a working document for a continuing structure, and the things that it called for are obviously still not done.” “ And no election addresses itself to those things," 1« added. “ The (current presi dential) election does not even address itself to the issues in tlie document.” Baraka offered the belief that the value of the Agenda's existence to date he gauged not from its success In bargaining Black support for any par ticular presidential candidate, but rather from the fact through its exlatance there was now a functioning A ssem bly. That group embodied no leaa than 26 i n u i In which local groups were organizing and working towaula em powerment in the Black community, ha explained. “ I think that in itself,” sakl Baraka, " la aufllclent com ment on the Black Political Agenda.” Baraka stated that ha would retain hia current rolea in the Congress of African People and the Committee forUnlfied New A rk. The resource» of those bodies, he explained, should be able to help him shoulder thia heavy load, al though Its sheer volume would require nothing less that "system atically delegating" all hla time lnordartoachieve tlie maximum results and effectiveness. sage President Nixon sakl 'll Congress provides the neces sary funds. 1 shall happily approve acquisition of these unique lands'. “ Hatfield said. Hatfield said that "purchase of the land by the federal government la the only way that we can prevent immedi ate liquidation of thia invaluable tra ct.” “ A private concern invest ing the estima ted $52,000,000 required for purchase w ill be forced to immediate action and a rapid and complete logging- off of the land w dl result,” he said. “ This w ill not only destroy the recreational potential of. this region for years to come, it would place a dis proportionate amount of timber on the market as well as upset the balance we are trying to achieve in our sus tained yield practices," Hatfield said. Hatfield said that “ I have discussed my plans wlthChlef M cC une and he is incomplete accord with what 1 propose." "H e agrees that approval of supplementary funds by the Appropriations Committee is the only method by which we can get the immediate action necessary,” 1« said. "W ith both Congress and the President having made clear their Intention and desire to ^...including transportation Cuba gains According to reports is- s «■' recently, educational 1- grass has sky-rocketed under the regime of Fidel Castro. Before the Revolution, it was reported, some hOO.OtXf children, or 37.5 per cent of the population, were illiterate. However, In the recently com pleted 1971-72 school year, Cuban officials reported, enrollment at inatltutlons of higher education was up 35 par cent, middle school enrollment was up 400 per cent and prim ary school en rollment. 130 per cent. The Cuban schools have placed a lieavy eniphaals on manual work and educational efforts in rural areas have not been neglected, said the report. Hatfield to introduce Indian land purchase Senator M ark Hatfield said that he w ill introduce a Sup plemental appropriations re quest m the Senate Appro priations Committee f o r federal purchase of the Kla math Indian forest lands m the January session of Con gress. Hatfield said that in a tele phone conversation he was assured of "the full support of Forest Service Chief John McGuire who has promised to back up my request by in cluding such funds in his budget fo r fiscal 1974." Hatfield, who is a member of the Appropriations Com mittee, said he is "op timistic about passage because both Congress and President Nixon have ex pressed approval of the purchase.” The 135,000 acre tract in the W inema forest is held in trust for the Klamath Indians and w ill be sold under terms of the Termination Act of 1964. Deadline for the trustees to provide the federal govern ment with firs t opportunity to purchase the land expired In June, 1971. In the last session of Con gress a bill providing tor tederal purchase of tlie lands passed as a rid er to another bill which was vetoed by President Nixon. "However, in his vetom es- Your ticket to the big game: purchase t l * land and with I t * promise of action early in tl« next seseion of Congress, the trustees can in good faith with hold a final sales decision,” Hatfield sakl. Hatfield pointed out that M c Guire’ s original opposition to acquisition of the land was “ purely from a monetary standpoint because the Forest Service did not have the re quisite funds,” but that as a professional forester M c Cune has always favored immediate purchase. Hatfield said that the exact supplemental request would not be known until January “ because the sale must be made by the trustees at fa ir market value." “ However, we anticipate the figure to te in Ll* nelghlxir- hood of the $52,000.000 requested in the last session of Congress," Hatfield aaid. 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Williams Lady Barber on du ly OPEN SATURDAY MORNINGS MODERN LIFELIKE C O TO SLEEP Employment problems of middle age I ’u llic a tio r '■! an intensive a d extensive study focusing on employ me t p ro b le m * of m ep un ian s letw een t ie ages of 45 to i’ 5 along a itl possible solutions to some ol tfiese problem s *a s announced ly Norm a i N ilsen, t ie tate I a! o r C o m m issio n e r. l i e lt? -p a g e study is en title d i p againvi iiie M IDDLE AGE HARRIER. It was compiled by tie i iregon bureau of I abor under tlie guidance of D r . L ric J .W e is s , Reserach D ire c to r, as |>art of (lie I ureau’ s educational program under the provisions of H e (iregon | a ir Employ ment I ’ racitices Act. P roblem s outlined involving the age groups which makes up alxiut one third of the «iregon work force concerned d ill unities with job placement and j >1 upgrjding. solutions advanced included clianges in state and feieral laws re garding employment and pen sions, new types of job fram ing and retraining ans spec ialized counselling. The study, firs t of its parti cular kind in the United b ates , was the result of cooperation by employes, employers and employment agencies. All told, a lout 700 persons parti cipated in an in-depth survey upon which the study is based. Presently, the Bureau of Labor is involved in another precedent-setting survey ol social significant about the attitudes and opinions of per sons who consider themselves to tie middle class on current issues and problem areas. Nilsen said that he felt I P AGAINST THE M IDDLE AGE BARRIER to be of Im mense value in the fit against age discrimination in employ ment. "Actually, this w ill be of value to all Oregonians re gardless of age," he said. The study is part of a con tinuing concern by the Bureau of Labor about work problems and the social well-being of a ll. The Bureau is responsible for administration and en forcement of the F a ir Em ployment Practicies Act in cluding provisions which pro hibit d i s c r i m i n a t i o n in employment because of age by em ployers, labor unions, employment agencies and pro fessional, trade and vocational schools. These provisions cover persons 25 to 65 years of age In employment situa tions of six or more persons. As one of the solutions of fered, tl« study recommends that coverage of the law be extended toemployment situa tions of one or more persons and that the Senior W orker* Law * of 1959 be amended to require employers to furnish proof that a Job applicant denied work was not turned down on the basis of age. Also recommended were early vesting provisions In pension plans and portable pension credit from job to job to encourage employment ol middle-aged workers. A statewide, lifelong educational and training program should be developed, the study said. Some of the problem* in dicated by persons partici pating in the study included: — M ere mention of age dur ing a job interview or on an application cause a disadvan tage. — -A person under 45 has a job advancement advantage over a middle age person. ---M o s t frequently used a r gum ents for not hiring middle aged persons was an alleged "lac k of ability to adapt and adjust to new trends and methods." — An age te r r ie r affects men more than women. -----Middle-aged persona feel they would have difficulties in finding new jobs if they should lose t l« lr present posts. — Age discrimination la most prevalent among large employers who “ tend to follow broad guidelines ol a deper sonalized policy.” -----Private pension plans In which cost and service re quirements are determined by s workers age cause a great deal of age discrimination. 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